These Charts Show The Political Bias Of Workers In Each Profession

Crowdpac, a non-partisan
firm dedicated to political data analysis, used federal
campaign contribution records dating back to 1980 in order
to estimate where various officials and donors fall on the
political spectrum. They scored individual donors as being more
liberal or conservative based on what kinds of candidates they
gave to.

The company's CEO and
co-founder, Steve Hilton, told Business Insider this donation
data "is the heart of the Crowdpac data model" because
their "research shows that campaign contributions are the
best predictor of how a candidate will behave in office."

Hilton also explained that the Crowdpac's main goal is to provide
people "good objective,
non-partisan information about the candidates on their ballot in
a simple form that they can understand." The company believes
this will help "boost
the number of small donors and reduce the influence of big money
in politics."

As part of their analysis, Crowdpac is also able to break down
where various professions fall on the political spectrum. They
provided that data to Business Insider.

Here's a summary of their
results:

Crowdpac

That basic summary shows the average ideology scores for each
profession. However, the "purple" professions that appear in the
middle of the spectrum aren't really bipartisan. They're actually
extremely polarized: Rather than having a large number of donors
with middle of the road politics, they're largely split, with a
big liberal group on one side and a similarly sized large
conservative group on the other.

These divides can be seen in the following charts, which were
provided to Business Insider by Crowdpac and show the number of
donors with each ideology score in each profession.

Liberal Professions

Some of the professional groups have clear liberal leanings.
People who work in the news media are almost exclusively donors
to liberal candidates: